Saturday, December 31, 2016

I got way behind in Christmas cards for 2016 so I am going to work on 2017 cards now and hopefully not get behind.

Using the candy cane Green Duck Embellishment of the red and white candy
cane I die cut the large snowflake and mounted on dimensionals. Added a
heat embossed white sentiment and finished off with some snowflakes and
sequins.

Funny story about this card. I always show my DH and my little guy my
cards when I get done and let them know the challenge. They both looked
at me and said I colored the shirt the wrong color and I should have
used flesh tones to show the other moon. Oh MEN!!! LOL!!!

Stamped the image and colored with copics. Masked the image and a circle
and sponged in the sky to give a night time look to my fisherman.

I had fun coloring this rose yesterday and decided to do one in red.
Colored with copics, shaped and added dimensionals. Due cut the border
and added green behind the border. Finished off with the sentiment
banner, some sequins and stickles for some fun shine.

My wonderful MIL is a quilter. She was out at Thanksgiving and I
mentioned I needed a new table runner and she came back at Christmas
with a perfect table runner for me based on what I needed. She has made
over 8 quilts for my home and I love everyone of them. When she
mentioned she needed a gift for a fellow quilter I said how about a few
quilt cards. So to the craft cave I went yesterday and then when I saw
today's challenge I knew I could swipe one of the BG's I started for
today's teapot challenge. Not to worry, I am still making her several
for her friend.

Die cut the quilt frame and switched out the blocks for white blocks.
Stamped the Heartfelt Creations flower and colored with copics. Popped
the flower on dimensionals and added some punched branches. Finished off
with some sequins and the sentiment.

I used different snowy DP and lined the BG sponging the edges of each
layer. I tore the white snowbank and sponged it. Using this fun sleigh
embellishment from Green Duck Designs I put it up on dimensionals and
stamped the sentiment.

Saturday, December 24, 2016

Today's fun inspiration challenge on SCS has a great dress that inspired this fun card.

Stamped the image, masked if off. Used aqua distress ink on the left and
blue on the right as the dress has both colors. Then splattered yellow
and black acrylic paint. I rubbed it on his tail as if to show where he
got in the paint. Once he was unmasked I colored him with some
additional brown distress ink and stamped the sentiment.

In our family we do not use much traditional wrapping paper, we use
reusable cloth bags. Using a fabric from my stash with Santa (on black
so it looks like night to me) I cut it down to fit behind the Gina Marie
quilt die cut. Cut Die cut the quilt frame and glued over the fabric
and mounted on the CS.

Stamped the sentiment and mounted it on black paper. For the Mix
challenge the sentiment is ink and I added stickles to the snowflakes on
the fabric to give it some shine but I don't think that took too well
in the photograph and also added stickles to portions of the sentiment
layer.

Stamped my Heartfelt Creations image and colored with copics. Die cut
the black gate frame from HFC and mounted on dimensionals. Stamped and
colored the additional leaves and grapes and shaped and layered around
the image. Finished off with stickles, sequins and framing of the white
gel pen.

Sunday, December 18, 2016

For today's FS challenge on SCS I found a wonderful Scarecrow card and just had to use this embellishment from Green Duck.

Super fast card, the base is white SC, then a layer of brown SC then the DP. Added the ribbon and layered the scarecrow and finished off with the die cut Thanks.

These darling images are from Green Duck Sales. They have a
great fan club program that you can check out: Die Cut Clubor you can follow them at Facebook Die Cut Club. Although this image is from last month, each month they have some wonderful embellishments you can play with all year long. I hope you check them out.

Saturday, December 17, 2016

The inspiration board is amazing today with wonderful ceramic art to inspire us.

I love the warm colors and used them to create this thank you card.
Since I have finished my Christmas cards it is time to get started on
thank you cards. The image from Seasonally Scattered is from a sweet
friend. I cut it down and mounted on a couple of layers. Used some
flowers from my stash in some of the rich tones in the ceramic pot and
added some homemade candy dots to finish off the flowers.

I am way behind in my Christmas cards again this year so I am going to
have to dig deep and crank out a card for the many that I did not get
individual cards made. This will be my Christmas card for the masses
again.

Sponged the blue in two different blues. Stamped my Santa sleigh many
times to get the dark black with my Misti. Heat embossed in silver the
sparkles that the sleigh is leaving in a trail. Used a tiny clear gem
and a red sharpie for Rudolph's nose.

I use to watch the old Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer movie every year
as a kid. When I saw this image I just had to get it from ODBD. I
stamped the image and colored with copics and die cut it.

Added a frame around my sentiment. The light blue layer is an emboss
resist where I used snowflakes then added the blue over the embossed
snowflakes. Popped up the frame on dimensionals. Put additional
dimensionals under Rudolph and added stickles to his nose.

Stamped and added the HFC poinsettia to the corner and colored adding
stickles to the edge of the flower. Finished the sentiment off with some
stickles where the stars appear. Can't get a great picture but is is
really sparkly.

Monday, December 12, 2016

I love how fast I can create a card with these embellishments. Added the
wood texture to the base stamped my sentiment and die cut the banner.
Finished off by putting the moose wreath and sentiment on dimensionals.

I did an explosion of snow in the BG for my sparkly tree from Green
Duck. I am still trying to get my Christmas cards done for this year and
this was a fast one I could create to send.

Embossed the snowy BG on the top panel, stamped the sentiment on the
bottom panel and added a strip of the blue from the card base to
separate the two panels. Stamped the sentiment and filled in the stars
with stickles to mirror the sparkle on the tree.

Friday, December 9, 2016

I used the long treat bags and filled them with red and green M&Ms.
Then I used these darling Green Duck embellishments. I punched some red
and green scraps (love using scraps) with a scalloped circle punch.
Attached them to the tops of the treat bags.

I made these for my little guy to take to school for his lunch buddies
because he asked me for a snack he could share with his lunch buddies
for a holiday treat exchange. I hope they like the snack.

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

I am honored again this week to hostess the weekly Ways to Use It challenge. It worked great to combine this challenge with the Featured Stamper and Teapot Tuesday challenges.

This is Sunny Susie the dancing sunflower girl. She lives in
her field with her 10,000 sisters. They dance in the breeze when no one is
watching but Sunny Susie dreams of showing humans how all the sunflowers dance.
She practices every night and in to the early morning hours and really loves to
dance. She thinks to herself one day she will get on a stage and show the world
her dance moves. Until that day comes she continues to practice. So if ever you
are driving by a field of sunflowers look out and keep watch you might see
Sunny Susie sneaking in a few practice moves.

This great image is from Tiddly Inks. I printed her off and
colored her with copics. I used this wonderful card here
for inspiration for this weeks FS Jan. Seeing Jan’s sunflower I just knew this
image was perfect for my challenge and for the teapot challenge this week too.
She is named after Teapot Tuesday challenge hostess Susie Australia. And I just had to
give her a story because Miss Susie has the best stories on her cards.

Fallidays 2017

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